POCO X8s Lands in Europe From €429.90: 50MP Telephoto

POCO’s compact mid-ranger has reached Europe. The POCO X8s, which went global in late October, is now on sale in Germany and other European markets, starting at €429.90 under an early-bird offer that runs until November 23.

6.35-inch 1–120Hz LTPO AMOLED display, Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, 50MP main camera with OIS plus a 50MP 2.5x telephoto, 6,330mAh battery with 100W wired charging, IP68 rating, and Xiaomi HyperOS 3.

Europe pricing and the early-bird deal

The regular European prices are €529.90 for the 8GB RAM and 256GB storage model, and €629.90 for the 12GB RAM and 512GB storage model. Until November 23, Xiaomi’s official store sells the two versions for €429.90 and €519.90 respectively — a saving of €100 on the base model and €110 on the higher one. Amazon also lists the phone in Europe at a slightly higher price.

The phone is rolling out across ten European countries, with Germany first in line, and the early-bird window closes on November 23, so the discount will not last long.

A compact phone with a telephoto first

At 151.1 x 71.8 x 8.06mm and 187g, the X8s is the smallest phone in POCO’s current X8 line-up, and it is the first in the X series to carry a telephoto camera. The rear system pairs a 50MP main camera using POCO’s Light Fusion 800 sensor (1/1.55-inch, with optical image stabilisation) with a 50MP telephoto offering 2.5x optical zoom and an 8MP ultra-wide. A 20MP camera sits on the front.

The 6.35-inch display is a 1220 x 2656 LTPO AMOLED panel with an adaptive 1–120Hz refresh rate and up to 3,500 nits of peak brightness, protected by POCO Shield Glass and framed by 1.18mm bezels. The Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 chipset, built on a 4nm process and clocked up to 2.8GHz, runs the show, with a vapour-chamber cooling system to keep it steady under load.

Battery and charging

The headline figure for a phone this size is the battery: a 6,330mAh silicon-carbon cell, which POCO says uses a 16% silicon content to pack more capacity into the slim body. It supports 100W wired HyperCharge and 22.5W wired reverse charging, so it can top up other devices too. There is no wireless charging.

Elsewhere, the X8s carries an IP68 dust and water resistance rating, an ultrasonic in-display fingerprint sensor, stereo speakers, NFC and an IR blaster, all in an aluminium frame. It comes in White, Blue and Black. One thing to note for European buyers: POCO does not include a charger in the box in Europe.

The X8s is a clear pitch at buyers who want flagship-style hardware — a telephoto lens, a bright LTPO display and a big battery — in a genuinely compact body and at a mid-range price. The early-bird pricing makes that pitch stronger, but only until November 23. Xiaomi’s flagship Xiaomi 18 Pro series is also heading global next week, on November 17.

Source: GSMArena.